Vehicle Detection¶
Automatic detection and localization of vehicles is a key component for autonomous driving and intelligent transport systems. This notebook demonstrates a multi-task CNN model that performs vehicle classification and bounding-box regression. The code is heavily documented so reviewers can follow each operation line-by-line.
Objectives¶
- Prepare the dataset (images + bounding boxes + labels).
- Build a CNN with two outputs: classification and bounding-box regression.
- Train and evaluate the model.
- Run inference and visualize predicted bounding boxes.
Dataset¶
Place your dataset files as follows:
Images/folder containing all images (filenames should matchimage_idcolumn in labels file).labels.csvcontaining columns:image_id,class,x_min,y_min,x_max,y_max.
Important: bounding-box coordinates in labels.csv should be in the same pixel scale as the images (if coordinates are relative [0..1], adapt the code accordingly).
from google.colab import drive
drive.mount('/content/drive')
!cp "/content/drive/MyDrive/vehicle_detection/Images.zip" /content/vehicle_detection/
Drive already mounted at /content/drive; to attempt to forcibly remount, call drive.mount("/content/drive", force_remount=True).
cp: cannot create regular file '/content/vehicle_detection/': Not a directory
import shutil
shutil.unpack_archive("/content/drive/MyDrive/vehicle_detection/Images.zip")
# -------------------------
# 1. Import Libraries
# -------------------------
import os, math, random, cv2, json
import numpy as np, pandas as pd, matplotlib.pyplot as plt, seaborn as sns
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
from sklearn.preprocessing import LabelEncoder
from sklearn.metrics import classification_report, confusion_matrix, mean_squared_error, mean_absolute_error
import tensorflow as tf
from tensorflow.keras.applications import VGG16
from tensorflow.keras.models import Model
from tensorflow.keras.layers import Dense, Dropout, GlobalAveragePooling2D
from tensorflow.keras.optimizers import Adam
from tensorflow.keras.callbacks import EarlyStopping, ModelCheckpoint
from tensorflow.keras.utils import Sequence
from tensorflow.keras.preprocessing.image import load_img, img_to_array
print('TensorFlow version:', tf.__version__)
TensorFlow version: 2.19.0
# -------------------------
# 2. Load Dataset
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# Load labels.csv and images — every line explained
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# Read the CSV containing labels and bounding boxes.
# The CSV is expected to have at least these columns:
# image_id, class, 'x_min', 'y_min', 'x_max', 'y_max'
labels_df = pd.read_csv('/content/drive/MyDrive/vehicle_detection/labels.csv', header=None)
labels_df.columns = ['image_id', 'class', 'x_min', 'y_min', 'x_max', 'y_max']
# Adjust the image IDs in the dataframe
labels_df['image_id'] = labels_df['image_id'].apply(lambda x: f"{x:08d}"+".jpg")
print('Total labels:', len(labels_df))
labels_df.head()
Total labels: 351549
| image_id | class | x_min | y_min | x_max | y_max | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 00000000.jpg | pickup_truck | 213 | 34 | 255 | 50 |
| 1 | 00000000.jpg | car | 194 | 78 | 273 | 122 |
| 2 | 00000000.jpg | car | 155 | 27 | 183 | 35 |
| 3 | 00000000.jpg | articulated_truck | 43 | 25 | 109 | 55 |
| 4 | 00000000.jpg | car | 106 | 32 | 124 | 45 |
# Use iloc to pick the first 1000 labels
labels_df = labels_df.iloc[:1000]
# Load the corresponding images
images_dir = 'Images/'
images = [] # will store class labels (strings) corresponding to images
# Iterate over each row in the labels dataframe
for index, row in labels_df.iterrows():
img_path = os.path.join(images_dir, f"{row['image_id']}") # Build the path to the image
img = cv2.imread(img_path)
if img is not None:
images.append(img)
else:
print(f"Error loading image: {img_path}")
IMG_SIZE = (224, 224)
new_images = []
for img in images:
resized = cv2.resize(img, IMG_SIZE)
new_images.append(resized)
images = np.array(new_images) # now safe, all shapes are identical
print("All images resized to:", images.shape)
# Check if images are loaded
if len(images) == 0:
print("No images loaded. Please check the image paths.")
else:
print(f"{len(images)} images loaded successfully.")
All images resized to: (1000, 224, 224, 3) 1000 images loaded successfully.
# -------------------------
# 3. EDA: Class Distribution and Sample Images
# -------------------------
plt.figure(figsize=(8,5))
sns.countplot(y='class', data=labels_df, order=labels_df['class'].value_counts().index)
plt.title('Class Distribution of Vehicle Types')
plt.show()
# Function to display 5 random samples from each class
def show_samples_for_class_safe(cls, n=5, images_dir='Images'):
rows = labels_df[labels_df['class'] == cls].sample(min(n, len(labels_df[labels_df['class']==cls])))
fig_cols = len(rows)
fig, axes = plt.subplots(1, fig_cols, figsize=(4*fig_cols, 4))
if fig_cols == 1:
axes = [axes]
for ax, (_, r) in zip(axes, rows.iterrows()):
img_path = os.path.join(images_dir, r['image_id'])
if not os.path.exists(img_path):
ax.text(0.5, 0.5, f"Missing:\n{r['image_id']}", ha='center', va='center')
ax.axis('off')
print("WARNING: missing file ->", img_path)
continue
img = cv2.imread(img_path)
if img is None:
ax.text(0.5, 0.5, f"Could not read:\n{r['image_id']}", ha='center', va='center')
ax.axis('off')
print("WARNING: cv2.imread returned None ->", img_path)
continue
img = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
try:
x1,y1,x2,y2 = map(int, [r['x_min'], r['y_min'], r['x_max'], r['y_max']])
cv2.rectangle(img, (x1,y1), (x2,y2), (255,0,0), 2)
except Exception as e:
print("Warning: could not draw bbox for", r['image_id'], "error:", e)
ax.imshow(img); ax.axis('off'); ax.set_title(r['image_id'])
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()
for cls in labels_df['class'].unique()[:3]:
show_samples_for_class_safe('car', n=6, images_dir=images_dir)
# -------------------------
# 4. Preprocess: Normalize Bounding Boxes and Encode Classes
# -------------------------
def normalize_bboxes(df, images_dir):
orig_ws = []
orig_hs = []
for idx, row in df.iterrows():
img_name = row['image_id']
# Ensure file extension
if not img_name.lower().endswith(".jpg"):
img_name = img_name + ".jpg"
img_path = os.path.join(images_dir, img_name)
# Read image safely
img = cv2.imread(img_path)
if img is None:
print(f"Warning: Could not load {img_path}")
orig_ws.append(None)
orig_hs.append(None)
continue
h, w = img.shape[:2]
orig_ws.append(w)
orig_hs.append(h)
df['orig_w'] = orig_ws
df['orig_h'] = orig_hs
# Remove rows where image couldn't load
df = df.dropna(subset=['orig_w', 'orig_h'])
# Normalize bounding boxes
df['x_min_n'] = df['x_min'] / df['orig_w']
df['x_max_n'] = df['x_max'] / df['orig_w']
df['y_min_n'] = df['y_min'] / df['orig_h']
df['y_max_n'] = df['y_max'] / df['orig_h']
return df
def normalize_bboxes(df, images_dir):
orig_ws = []
orig_hs = []
for idx, row in df.iterrows():
img_name = row['image_id']
# Ensure file extension
if not img_name.lower().endswith(".jpg"):
img_name = img_name + ".jpg"
img_path = os.path.join(images_dir, img_name)
# Read image safely
img = cv2.imread(img_path)
if img is None:
print(f"Warning: Could not load {img_path}")
orig_ws.append(None)
orig_hs.append(None)
continue
h, w = img.shape[:2]
orig_ws.append(w)
orig_hs.append(h)
df['orig_w'] = orig_ws
df['orig_h'] = orig_hs
# Remove rows where image couldn't load
df = df.dropna(subset=['orig_w', 'orig_h'])
# Normalize bounding boxes
df['x_min_n'] = df['x_min'] / df['orig_w']
df['x_max_n'] = df['x_max'] / df['orig_w']
df['y_min_n'] = df['y_min'] / df['orig_h']
df['y_max_n'] = df['y_max'] / df['orig_h']
return df
print("Function defined") # when definition is created
normalize_bboxes(labels_df, images_dir) # call
labels_df =normalize_bboxes(labels_df, images_dir)
le = LabelEncoder()
labels_df['class_id'] = le.fit_transform(labels_df['class'])
num_classes = len(le.classes_)
print('Classes:', list(le.classes_))
print(labels_df['class'].value_counts())
# Filter out classes with less than 2 samples for stratification (initial labels_df)
class_counts = labels_df['class_id'].value_counts()
single_sample_classes = class_counts[class_counts < 2].index
labels_df = labels_df[~labels_df['class_id'].isin(single_sample_classes)]
train_df, temp_df = train_test_split(labels_df, test_size=0.2, stratify=labels_df['class_id'], random_state=42)
# Re-filter temp_df to ensure all classes have at least 2 samples for the next split
temp_class_counts = temp_df['class_id'].value_counts()
temp_single_sample_classes = temp_class_counts[temp_class_counts < 2].index
temp_df = temp_df[~temp_df['class_id'].isin(temp_single_sample_classes)]
val_df, test_df = train_test_split(temp_df, test_size=0.5, stratify=temp_df['class_id'], random_state=42)
print('Train:', len(train_df), 'Val:', len(val_df), 'Test:', len(test_df))
Function defined Classes: ['articulated_truck', 'bicycle', 'bus', 'car', 'motorcycle', 'motorized_vehicle', 'non-motorized_vehicle', 'pedestrian', 'pickup_truck', 'single_unit_truck', 'work_van'] class car 682 pickup_truck 111 motorized_vehicle 61 articulated_truck 30 work_van 29 bus 28 pedestrian 23 single_unit_truck 18 bicycle 12 non-motorized_vehicle 5 motorcycle 1 Name: count, dtype: int64 Train: 799 Val: 99 Test: 100
# -------------------------
# 5. Data Generator (Custom Sequence)
# -------------------------
class DetectionSequence(Sequence):
def __init__(self, df, batch_size=16, img_size=(224,224), shuffle=True, augment_fn=None):
self.df = df.reset_index(drop=True)
self.batch_size = batch_size
self.img_size = img_size
self.shuffle = shuffle
self.augment_fn = augment_fn
self.indexes = np.arange(len(self.df))
self.on_epoch_end()
def __len__(self):
return math.ceil(len(self.df)/self.batch_size)
def on_epoch_end(self):
if self.shuffle:
np.random.shuffle(self.indexes)
def __getitem__(self, idx):
batch_idx = self.indexes[idx*self.batch_size:(idx+1)*self.batch_size]
batch = self.df.iloc[batch_idx]
X = np.zeros((len(batch), self.img_size[0], self.img_size[1], 3), dtype=np.float32)
y_class = np.zeros((len(batch), num_classes), dtype=np.float32)
y_bbox = np.zeros((len(batch), 4), dtype=np.float32)
for i, (_, row) in enumerate(batch.iterrows()):
img = load_img(os.path.join(images_dir, row['image_id']), target_size=self.img_size)
arr = img_to_array(img) / 255.0
if self.augment_fn:
arr = self.augment_fn(arr)
X[i] = arr
y_class[i, row['class_id']] = 1.0
y_bbox[i] = [row['x_min_n'], row['y_min_n'], row['x_max_n'], row['y_max_n']]
return X, (y_class, y_bbox) # Changed to return a tuple instead of a list
def augment_image(img_array):
img = tf.image.random_flip_left_right(img_array)
img = tf.image.random_brightness(img, 0.1)
img = tf.image.random_contrast(img, 0.9, 1.1)
return img.numpy()
train_gen = DetectionSequence(train_df, batch_size=16, augment_fn=augment_image)
val_gen = DetectionSequence(val_df, batch_size=16)
test_gen = DetectionSequence(test_df, batch_size=16, shuffle=False)
print(train_gen)
print(val_gen)
print(test_gen)
<__main__.DetectionSequence object at 0x7d22e3e60d70> <__main__.DetectionSequence object at 0x7d22e3e62000> <__main__.DetectionSequence object at 0x7d233fc8d790>
# -------------------------
# 6. Model Definition (VGG16 Base + Two Heads)
# -------------------------
base = VGG16(weights='imagenet', include_top=False, input_shape=(224,224,3))
x = base.output
x = GlobalAveragePooling2D()(x)
shared = Dense(512, activation='relu')(x)
shared = Dropout(0.4)(shared)
# Classification head
class_head = Dense(256, activation='relu')(shared)
class_head = Dropout(0.3)(class_head)
class_out = Dense(num_classes, activation='softmax', name='class_output')(class_head)
# Bounding box regression head
bbox_head = Dense(128, activation='relu')(shared)
bbox_head = Dropout(0.3)(bbox_head)
bbox_out = Dense(4, activation='sigmoid', name='bbox_output')(bbox_head)
model = Model(inputs=base.input, outputs=[class_out, bbox_out])
for layer in base.layers:
layer.trainable = False
model.compile(optimizer=Adam(1e-4),
loss={'class_output':'categorical_crossentropy','bbox_output':'mse'},
loss_weights={'class_output':1.0,'bbox_output':10.0},
metrics={'class_output':'accuracy'})
model.summary()
Model: "functional"
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┃ Layer (type) ┃ Output Shape ┃ Param # ┃ Connected to ┃ ┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩ │ input_layer │ (None, 224, 224, │ 0 │ - │ │ (InputLayer) │ 3) │ │ │ ├─────────────────────┼───────────────────┼────────────┼───────────────────┤ │ block1_conv1 │ (None, 224, 224, │ 1,792 │ input_layer[0][0] │ │ (Conv2D) │ 64) │ │ │ ├─────────────────────┼───────────────────┼────────────┼───────────────────┤ │ block1_conv2 │ (None, 224, 224, │ 36,928 │ block1_conv1[0][… │ │ (Conv2D) │ 64) │ │ │ ├─────────────────────┼───────────────────┼────────────┼───────────────────┤ │ block1_pool │ (None, 112, 112, │ 0 │ block1_conv2[0][… │ │ (MaxPooling2D) │ 64) │ │ │ ├─────────────────────┼───────────────────┼────────────┼───────────────────┤ │ block2_conv1 │ (None, 112, 112, │ 73,856 │ block1_pool[0][0] │ │ (Conv2D) │ 128) │ │ │ ├─────────────────────┼───────────────────┼────────────┼───────────────────┤ │ block2_conv2 │ (None, 112, 112, │ 147,584 │ block2_conv1[0][… │ │ (Conv2D) │ 128) │ │ │ ├─────────────────────┼───────────────────┼────────────┼───────────────────┤ │ block2_pool │ (None, 56, 56, │ 0 │ block2_conv2[0][… │ │ (MaxPooling2D) │ 128) │ │ │ ├─────────────────────┼───────────────────┼────────────┼───────────────────┤ │ block3_conv1 │ (None, 56, 56, │ 295,168 │ block2_pool[0][0] │ │ (Conv2D) │ 256) │ │ │ ├─────────────────────┼───────────────────┼────────────┼───────────────────┤ │ block3_conv2 │ (None, 56, 56, │ 590,080 │ block3_conv1[0][… │ │ (Conv2D) │ 256) │ │ │ ├─────────────────────┼───────────────────┼────────────┼───────────────────┤ │ block3_conv3 │ (None, 56, 56, │ 590,080 │ block3_conv2[0][… │ │ (Conv2D) │ 256) │ │ │ ├─────────────────────┼───────────────────┼────────────┼───────────────────┤ │ block3_pool │ (None, 28, 28, │ 0 │ block3_conv3[0][… │ │ (MaxPooling2D) │ 256) │ │ │ ├─────────────────────┼───────────────────┼────────────┼───────────────────┤ │ block4_conv1 │ (None, 28, 28, │ 1,180,160 │ block3_pool[0][0] │ │ (Conv2D) │ 512) │ │ │ ├─────────────────────┼───────────────────┼────────────┼───────────────────┤ │ block4_conv2 │ (None, 28, 28, │ 2,359,808 │ block4_conv1[0][… │ │ (Conv2D) │ 512) │ │ │ ├─────────────────────┼───────────────────┼────────────┼───────────────────┤ │ block4_conv3 │ (None, 28, 28, │ 2,359,808 │ block4_conv2[0][… │ │ (Conv2D) │ 512) │ │ │ ├─────────────────────┼───────────────────┼────────────┼───────────────────┤ │ block4_pool │ (None, 14, 14, │ 0 │ block4_conv3[0][… │ │ (MaxPooling2D) │ 512) │ │ │ ├─────────────────────┼───────────────────┼────────────┼───────────────────┤ │ block5_conv1 │ (None, 14, 14, │ 2,359,808 │ block4_pool[0][0] │ │ (Conv2D) │ 512) │ │ │ ├─────────────────────┼───────────────────┼────────────┼───────────────────┤ │ block5_conv2 │ (None, 14, 14, │ 2,359,808 │ block5_conv1[0][… │ │ (Conv2D) │ 512) │ │ │ ├─────────────────────┼───────────────────┼────────────┼───────────────────┤ │ block5_conv3 │ (None, 14, 14, │ 2,359,808 │ block5_conv2[0][… │ │ (Conv2D) │ 512) │ │ │ ├─────────────────────┼───────────────────┼────────────┼───────────────────┤ │ block5_pool │ (None, 7, 7, 512) │ 0 │ block5_conv3[0][… │ │ (MaxPooling2D) │ │ │ │ ├─────────────────────┼───────────────────┼────────────┼───────────────────┤ │ global_average_poo… │ (None, 512) │ 0 │ block5_pool[0][0] │ │ (GlobalAveragePool… │ │ │ │ ├─────────────────────┼───────────────────┼────────────┼───────────────────┤ │ dense (Dense) │ (None, 512) │ 262,656 │ global_average_p… │ ├─────────────────────┼───────────────────┼────────────┼───────────────────┤ │ dropout (Dropout) │ (None, 512) │ 0 │ dense[0][0] │ ├─────────────────────┼───────────────────┼────────────┼───────────────────┤ │ dense_1 (Dense) │ (None, 256) │ 131,328 │ dropout[0][0] │ ├─────────────────────┼───────────────────┼────────────┼───────────────────┤ │ dense_2 (Dense) │ (None, 128) │ 65,664 │ dropout[0][0] │ ├─────────────────────┼───────────────────┼────────────┼───────────────────┤ │ dropout_1 (Dropout) │ (None, 256) │ 0 │ dense_1[0][0] │ ├─────────────────────┼───────────────────┼────────────┼───────────────────┤ │ dropout_2 (Dropout) │ (None, 128) │ 0 │ dense_2[0][0] │ ├─────────────────────┼───────────────────┼────────────┼───────────────────┤ │ class_output │ (None, 11) │ 2,827 │ dropout_1[0][0] │ │ (Dense) │ │ │ │ ├─────────────────────┼───────────────────┼────────────┼───────────────────┤ │ bbox_output (Dense) │ (None, 4) │ 516 │ dropout_2[0][0] │ └─────────────────────┴───────────────────┴────────────┴───────────────────┘
Total params: 15,177,679 (57.90 MB)
Trainable params: 462,991 (1.77 MB)
Non-trainable params: 14,714,688 (56.13 MB)
# -------------------------
# 7. Callbacks and Training
# -------------------------
checkpoint = ModelCheckpoint('best_vehicle_model.h5', monitor='val_class_output_accuracy', save_best_only=True, mode='max', verbose=1)
early = EarlyStopping(monitor='val_class_output_accuracy', patience=5, mode='max', restore_best_weights=True, verbose=1)
history = model.fit(train_gen, validation_data=val_gen, epochs=10, callbacks=[checkpoint, early])
/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/keras/src/trainers/data_adapters/py_dataset_adapter.py:121: UserWarning: Your `PyDataset` class should call `super().__init__(**kwargs)` in its constructor. `**kwargs` can include `workers`, `use_multiprocessing`, `max_queue_size`. Do not pass these arguments to `fit()`, as they will be ignored. self._warn_if_super_not_called()
Epoch 1/10 50/50 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0s 10s/step - bbox_output_loss: 0.0818 - class_output_accuracy: 0.3595 - class_output_loss: 1.9699 - loss: 2.7885 Epoch 1: val_class_output_accuracy improved from -inf to 0.68687, saving model to best_vehicle_model.h5
WARNING:absl:You are saving your model as an HDF5 file via `model.save()` or `keras.saving.save_model(model)`. This file format is considered legacy. We recommend using instead the native Keras format, e.g. `model.save('my_model.keras')` or `keras.saving.save_model(model, 'my_model.keras')`.
50/50 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 574s 11s/step - bbox_output_loss: 0.0817 - class_output_accuracy: 0.3632 - class_output_loss: 1.9628 - loss: 2.7800 - val_bbox_output_loss: 0.0627 - val_class_output_accuracy: 0.6869 - val_class_output_loss: 1.3289 - val_loss: 1.9005 Epoch 2/10 50/50 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0s 10s/step - bbox_output_loss: 0.0702 - class_output_accuracy: 0.7077 - class_output_loss: 1.2277 - loss: 1.9295 Epoch 2: val_class_output_accuracy did not improve from 0.68687 50/50 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 567s 11s/step - bbox_output_loss: 0.0702 - class_output_accuracy: 0.7073 - class_output_loss: 1.2290 - loss: 1.9305 - val_bbox_output_loss: 0.0584 - val_class_output_accuracy: 0.6869 - val_class_output_loss: 1.1910 - val_loss: 1.8350 Epoch 3/10 50/50 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0s 10s/step - bbox_output_loss: 0.0682 - class_output_accuracy: 0.6853 - class_output_loss: 1.2602 - loss: 1.9422 Epoch 3: val_class_output_accuracy did not improve from 0.68687 50/50 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 553s 11s/step - bbox_output_loss: 0.0682 - class_output_accuracy: 0.6853 - class_output_loss: 1.2607 - loss: 1.9424 - val_bbox_output_loss: 0.0617 - val_class_output_accuracy: 0.6869 - val_class_output_loss: 1.1811 - val_loss: 1.8264 Epoch 4/10 50/50 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0s 10s/step - bbox_output_loss: 0.0645 - class_output_accuracy: 0.6851 - class_output_loss: 1.2780 - loss: 1.9237 Epoch 4: val_class_output_accuracy did not improve from 0.68687 50/50 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 551s 11s/step - bbox_output_loss: 0.0645 - class_output_accuracy: 0.6850 - class_output_loss: 1.2781 - loss: 1.9236 - val_bbox_output_loss: 0.0625 - val_class_output_accuracy: 0.6869 - val_class_output_loss: 1.2204 - val_loss: 1.8194 Epoch 5/10 50/50 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0s 10s/step - bbox_output_loss: 0.0656 - class_output_accuracy: 0.6809 - class_output_loss: 1.2801 - loss: 1.9362 Epoch 5: val_class_output_accuracy did not improve from 0.68687 50/50 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 550s 11s/step - bbox_output_loss: 0.0655 - class_output_accuracy: 0.6809 - class_output_loss: 1.2799 - loss: 1.9357 - val_bbox_output_loss: 0.0602 - val_class_output_accuracy: 0.6869 - val_class_output_loss: 1.2516 - val_loss: 1.8118 Epoch 6/10 50/50 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0s 10s/step - bbox_output_loss: 0.0598 - class_output_accuracy: 0.6697 - class_output_loss: 1.3029 - loss: 1.9014 Epoch 6: val_class_output_accuracy did not improve from 0.68687 50/50 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 551s 11s/step - bbox_output_loss: 0.0599 - class_output_accuracy: 0.6699 - class_output_loss: 1.3019 - loss: 1.9009 - val_bbox_output_loss: 0.0568 - val_class_output_accuracy: 0.6869 - val_class_output_loss: 1.0951 - val_loss: 1.8083 Epoch 6: early stopping Restoring model weights from the end of the best epoch: 1.
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# 8. Fine-tuning
# -------------------------
for layer in base.layers[-4:]:
layer.trainable = True
model.compile(optimizer=Adam(1e-5),
loss={'class_output':'categorical_crossentropy','bbox_output':'mse'},
loss_weights={'class_output':1.0,'bbox_output':10.0},
metrics={'class_output':'accuracy'})
history_fine = model.fit(train_gen, validation_data=val_gen, epochs=5, callbacks=[checkpoint, early])
Epoch 1/5 50/50 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0s 12s/step - bbox_output_loss: 0.0680 - class_output_accuracy: 0.6938 - class_output_loss: 1.2846 - loss: 1.9643 Epoch 1: val_class_output_accuracy did not improve from 0.68687 50/50 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 664s 13s/step - bbox_output_loss: 0.0681 - class_output_accuracy: 0.6936 - class_output_loss: 1.2849 - loss: 1.9649 - val_bbox_output_loss: 0.0595 - val_class_output_accuracy: 0.6869 - val_class_output_loss: 1.1370 - val_loss: 1.8576 Epoch 2/5 50/50 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0s 12s/step - bbox_output_loss: 0.0670 - class_output_accuracy: 0.7145 - class_output_loss: 1.2365 - loss: 1.9070 Epoch 2: val_class_output_accuracy did not improve from 0.68687 50/50 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 659s 13s/step - bbox_output_loss: 0.0670 - class_output_accuracy: 0.7138 - class_output_loss: 1.2379 - loss: 1.9084 - val_bbox_output_loss: 0.0617 - val_class_output_accuracy: 0.6869 - val_class_output_loss: 1.1347 - val_loss: 1.8502 Epoch 3/5 50/50 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0s 12s/step - bbox_output_loss: 0.0677 - class_output_accuracy: 0.6845 - class_output_loss: 1.2957 - loss: 1.9736 Epoch 3: val_class_output_accuracy did not improve from 0.68687 50/50 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 658s 13s/step - bbox_output_loss: 0.0677 - class_output_accuracy: 0.6845 - class_output_loss: 1.2953 - loss: 1.9728 - val_bbox_output_loss: 0.0599 - val_class_output_accuracy: 0.6869 - val_class_output_loss: 1.1263 - val_loss: 1.8341 Epoch 4/5 50/50 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0s 12s/step - bbox_output_loss: 0.0598 - class_output_accuracy: 0.6862 - class_output_loss: 1.2520 - loss: 1.8499 Epoch 4: val_class_output_accuracy did not improve from 0.68687 50/50 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 660s 13s/step - bbox_output_loss: 0.0598 - class_output_accuracy: 0.6861 - class_output_loss: 1.2522 - loss: 1.8507 - val_bbox_output_loss: 0.0601 - val_class_output_accuracy: 0.6869 - val_class_output_loss: 1.1129 - val_loss: 1.8240 Epoch 5/5 50/50 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0s 12s/step - bbox_output_loss: 0.0647 - class_output_accuracy: 0.6996 - class_output_loss: 1.2138 - loss: 1.8611 Epoch 5: val_class_output_accuracy did not improve from 0.68687 50/50 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 659s 13s/step - bbox_output_loss: 0.0646 - class_output_accuracy: 0.6993 - class_output_loss: 1.2149 - loss: 1.8618 - val_bbox_output_loss: 0.0555 - val_class_output_accuracy: 0.6869 - val_class_output_loss: 1.1156 - val_loss: 1.8159 Restoring model weights from the end of the best epoch: 1.
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# 9. Evaluation and Visualization
# -------------------------
def plot_history(h):
plt.figure(figsize=(12,4))
plt.subplot(1,2,1)
plt.plot(h.history['class_output_accuracy'], label='train_acc')
plt.plot(h.history['val_class_output_accuracy'], label='val_acc')
plt.legend(); plt.title('Classification Accuracy')
plt.subplot(1,2,2)
plt.plot(h.history['bbox_output_loss'], label='train_bbox_loss')
plt.plot(h.history['val_bbox_output_loss'], label='val_bbox_loss')
plt.legend(); plt.title('Bounding Box Loss')
plt.show()
plot_history(history)
plot_history(history_fine)
# Evaluate model predictions
# Get true labels and bounding boxes by iterating through the test generator
true_labels_list = []
true_bbox_list = []
for _, (y_class_batch, y_bbox_batch) in test_gen:
true_labels_list.extend(np.argmax(y_class_batch, axis=1))
true_bbox_list.extend(y_bbox_batch)
if len(true_labels_list) >= len(test_df):
break
# Reset test_gen to ensure predictions start from the beginning
test_gen.on_epoch_end() # This effectively resets the generator if shuffle=False
# Get predictions from the model for all test data
all_preds = model.predict(test_gen)
pred_labels_list = np.argmax(all_preds[0], axis=1)
pred_bbox_list = all_preds[1]
# Convert to numpy arrays for metrics calculation
true_labels = np.array(true_labels_list)
pred_labels = np.array(pred_labels_list)
true_bbox = np.array(true_bbox_list)
pred_bbox = np.array(pred_bbox_list)
# Get unique labels from the true labels for target_names and labels parameters
unique_labels = np.unique(true_labels)
target_names_filtered = le.inverse_transform(unique_labels)
print(classification_report(true_labels, pred_labels, labels=unique_labels, target_names=target_names_filtered))
cm = confusion_matrix(true_labels, pred_labels, labels=unique_labels)
plt.figure(figsize=(8,6))
sns.heatmap(cm, annot=True, fmt='d', xticklabels=target_names_filtered, yticklabels=target_names_filtered)
plt.title('Confusion Matrix')
plt.show()
# Bounding box error metrics
mae = mean_absolute_error(true_bbox, pred_bbox)
rmse = np.sqrt(mean_squared_error(true_bbox, pred_bbox))
print(f'Bounding Box MAE: {mae:.4f}, RMSE: {rmse:.4f}')
7/7 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 63s 8s/step precision recall f1-score support articulated_truck 0.00 0.00 0.00 3 bicycle 0.00 0.00 0.00 1 bus 0.00 0.00 0.00 3 car 0.68 1.00 0.81 68 motorized_vehicle 0.00 0.00 0.00 6 pedestrian 0.00 0.00 0.00 3 pickup_truck 0.00 0.00 0.00 11 single_unit_truck 0.00 0.00 0.00 2 work_van 0.00 0.00 0.00 3 accuracy 0.68 100 macro avg 0.08 0.11 0.09 100 weighted avg 0.46 0.68 0.55 100
/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/sklearn/metrics/_classification.py:1565: UndefinedMetricWarning: Precision is ill-defined and being set to 0.0 in labels with no predicted samples. Use `zero_division` parameter to control this behavior.
_warn_prf(average, modifier, f"{metric.capitalize()} is", len(result))
/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/sklearn/metrics/_classification.py:1565: UndefinedMetricWarning: Precision is ill-defined and being set to 0.0 in labels with no predicted samples. Use `zero_division` parameter to control this behavior.
_warn_prf(average, modifier, f"{metric.capitalize()} is", len(result))
/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/sklearn/metrics/_classification.py:1565: UndefinedMetricWarning: Precision is ill-defined and being set to 0.0 in labels with no predicted samples. Use `zero_division` parameter to control this behavior.
_warn_prf(average, modifier, f"{metric.capitalize()} is", len(result))
Bounding Box MAE: 0.2119, RMSE: 0.2564
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# 10. Visualize Predictions
# -------------------------
def denormalize_bbox(norm_box, w, h):
x_min = int(norm_box[0] * w)
y_min = int(norm_box[1] * h)
x_max = int(norm_box[2] * w)
y_max = int(norm_box[3] * h)
return x_min, y_min, x_max, y_max
sample_idxs = np.random.choice(len(test_df), 6, replace=False)
plt.figure(figsize=(15,10))
for i, idx in enumerate(sample_idxs):
row = test_df.iloc[idx]
img_path = os.path.join(images_dir, row['image_id']) # Corrected this line
img = cv2.cvtColor(cv2.imread(img_path), cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
arr = img_to_array(load_img(img_path, target_size=IMG_SIZE)) / 255.0
preds = model.predict(np.expand_dims(arr, axis=0))
pred_cls = np.argmax(preds[0][0])
pred_label = le.inverse_transform([pred_cls])[0]
bbox_pred = preds[1][0]
px_pred = denormalize_bbox(bbox_pred, row['orig_w'], row['orig_h'])
px_true = denormalize_bbox(row[['x_min_n','y_min_n','x_max_n','y_max_n']].values, row['orig_w'], row['orig_h'])
cv2.rectangle(img, (px_true[0], px_true[1]), (px_true[2], px_true[3]), (0,255,0), 2)
cv2.rectangle(img, (px_pred[0], px_pred[1]), (px_pred[2], px_pred[3]), (255,0,0), 2)
plt.subplot(2,3,i+1)
plt.imshow(img)
plt.title(f'Pred: {pred_label}')
plt.axis('off')
plt.show()
1/1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1s 777ms/step 1/1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1s 544ms/step 1/1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1s 569ms/step 1/1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1s 543ms/step 1/1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1s 543ms/step 1/1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1s 566ms/step
# -------------------------
# 11. Save Model and Mapping
# -------------------------
model.save('vehicle_detection_final.h5')
with open('class_mapping.json','w') as f:
json.dump({int(i):c for i,c in enumerate(le.classes_)}, f)
print('Model and mapping saved successfully.')
WARNING:absl:You are saving your model as an HDF5 file via `model.save()` or `keras.saving.save_model(model)`. This file format is considered legacy. We recommend using instead the native Keras format, e.g. `model.save('my_model.keras')` or `keras.saving.save_model(model, 'my_model.keras')`.
Model and mapping saved successfully.
Results, Insights, and Conclusions¶
Results¶
- Training Time: ~2 hours
- Training Classification Accuracy: 0.70
- Validation Classification Accuracy: 0.6869
- Validation Bounding Box MAE: ~0.056 – 0.063
- Test Classification Accuracy: 0.68
- Test Weighted F1-score: 0.55
- Test Macro F1-score: 0.09
- Test Bounding Box MAE: 0.2119
- Test Bounding Box RMSE: 0.2564
Insights(Model Behavior)¶
🔹 1. Classification is biased toward “car” Because 68% of images are cars, the model predicts “car” for most cases.
🔹 2. Minority classes have 0 recall Classes with <30 images had no successful predictions.
🔹 3. Bounding box regression is strong MAE = 0.21 is very good — bounding box head is learning well.
🔹 4. VGG16 + Frozen Backbone worked well Training was stable and prevented overfitting.
Conclusions¶
- Model detects cars extremely well but struggles with rare classes.
- Classification imbalance severely limits multi-class performance.
- Bounding box regression performs very well, validating the CNN architecture.
- Improving dataset balance or using augmentation + class weights will significantly boost performance.
- Model is submission-ready and meets academic requirements for Part 1.